Improvement in farm-gates



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOEL LEE, OF GALESBURG, ILLINOIS.v

IMPROVEMENT IN FARM-GATES.

Speeitication forming part of Letters Patent No. 55,876, dated Julie 26, 1866.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, JOEL LEE, ot' Galesburg, in the county ot' Knox and' State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in FarnrGates; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ot' the eonstruetion and operation otl the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part ot' this specification, in whioh- Figure 1 represents the gate shut; Fig. 2, the gate open. Fig. 3 is a sectional View; and Fig. etthe three friction-rollers on a pivot.

AAreprcsents the guide-rollers; B, the supporting-roll; O, the support for rollers A A and L; E, the strips to prevent the rolls from rising; F, the gate; G, the eap; H, fence or gatepost; Lt'ence-post; J, gate-stop; K, block.

The nature of' my invention consists in t'urnishing i'rictioirrollers A A to keep the gate on roller B.

To use my invention, bloek K is secured to post H, and the other side to gate-stop J, the

` block having a holein its center for the reception ofthe pivot ofthe roller-support. The bar ofthe gate is placed on roller B in such a manner as to support the gate at the right height from the ground.

Friction-rollers A A, heilig on eaeh side of gate bar, prevent the gate from getting ott' of the roller B.

vVhen the gate is to be opened it is shoved back to near its center, and then turned at right angles with the fence.

The rollers A A not only keep the gate to its place, but permit it to be moved along Without catching, as is the case sometimes when the guides are composed ot' metal without iriction-rolls.

To shut the gate, it eau be pulled while ear rying it round, and the t'rietion-rollers A A and B permit it lo pass along smoothl7 as the roller-support turns ou its pivot.

The gate may be secured to fence-post I by hook and staple or pin, as most convenient.

Thisgate needs 11o braces, neither is the gate-post liable to san', as the pressure is perpendicular. Y

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The friction-rollers A A, when used as set forth and described.

2. The arrangement of rollers A A with the roller B and the roller-support O, all arranged as set t'orlh and described.

JOEL LEF.

Witnesses H. A. DIXON, GEORGE LEE. 

